I’m giving a paper tomorrow at 14:30 at De Montfort University. It’s called: Not all of us have Apple Macs: Inter-operability and web publishing for journals. The conference is Text and Context: Scholarly Editing in the 21st Century and is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
What I’ll be talking about are the benefits and pitfalls of electronic publishing. There are three main strands. One will be that electronic papers need to meet web standards so people can read them. Second a web paper can be commented on in situ which is a useful academic thing to do. Finally Open Access is a Good Idea which aids scholarship. You can read the whole thing for yourself.
I’m also inviting you to take part.
The plan is to look at the live copy of the paper during the talk between 14:30 and 14:45 BST. If you get a comment up before then I’ll try and throw it into the audience for discussion. I cannot be certain that internet access will be available, but you can also take part in another way. It is possible that the conference proceedings will be published. If this is the case I’d like like to include the comments as part of the paper. By my reckoning if that happens then that makes you a co-author which you can add to your own publication list if publication happens. If you add a comment to the paper I’ll assume you’re aware of this.
I don’t know if the conference proceedings will be Open Access, though I throw down the challenge. Feel free to berate my naivety or applaud my god-like genius and agree with me, especially the latter.
